Terence Stamp

For "Big Eyes," director Tim Burton cast four of the biggest, widest eyes in contemporary movies. Two of them belong to Amy Adams, who plays painter Margaret Keane, creator of countless canvases of huge-orbed waifs mysteriously popular for a time but credited, for years, to her scoundrel of a husband. Walter Keane is played by Christoph Waltz, here working overtime to beguile, in an oily way, often in formidable close-up. I've never thought of Waltz as especially wide-eyed until this movie. And there you have it: When he and Adams share the frame, it's really something.

Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have a considerable track record in off-center...

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For "Big Eyes," director Tim Burton cast four of the biggest, widest eyes in contemporary movies. Two of them belong to Amy Adams, who plays painter Margaret Keane, creator of countless canvases of huge-orbed waifs mysteriously popular for a...